Australia’s Bullying No Way Week is a national movement dedicated to preventing bullying in schools, workplaces, and communities, fostering a culture of inclusion, respect, and belonging.
This week, we’re sharing resources to help you be bold, be kind, and speak up, because everyone deserves to feel safe, valued, and supported.
This fact sheet is intended for young people with intersex variations/innate variation of sex characteristics. It may also be helpful for family members and carers. This page links to a resource in the InterLink resource hub.
We congratulate the Albanese Labor government on its re-election. We look forward to continuing to work with the government, to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for people with innate variations of sex characteristics, to build on key actions from the 47th Parliament, and to deepen engagement across portfolios.
In December 2022, IHRA made a submission to the Senate Education and Employment References Committee in relation to its inquiry on school refusal and related matters.
We're excited to announce the last of our Webinar Series for 2022! Ending the year on a fun note, we have an author talk with Margie McCumstie, talking about her children's book "I am me... Naturally!"
In a free webinar on Monday 27 September 2021, Dr Agli Zavros-Orr described how curricula can productively and constructively educate about intersex in ways that are inclusive of the intersex human rights movement, and a diversity of lived experiences and identities.
Wear It Purple Day celebrates the diversity of Australian students and their right to dignity and respect at school. We celebrate its values of inclusion, and grass roots efforts to support community education and non-profits. We thought we'd take the opportunity to start a conversation on some of the challenges students with intersex variations may face at school.
IHRA has made a formal submission on a One Nation education bill to a committee of the NSW Parliament chaired by the One Nation MP who authored the bill. Our submission was coauthored by Morgan Carpenter and Dr Agli Zavros-Orr.
We are pleased to share this new peer-reviewed publication by a team of authors: Annette Brömdal, Agli Zavros-Orr, lisahunter, Kirstine Hand, and Bonnie Hart, focusing on how schools can support and affirm the rights of students with intersex variations.
Guides to inclusive practice, to help make your service, program or project intersex-friendly.
19 Mar 2021
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